Spatial Security Policies for Mobile Agents in a Sentient Computing Environment

Abstract. A Sentient Computing environment is one in which the system is able to perceive the state of the physical world and use this information to customise its behaviour. Mobile agents are a promising new programming methodology for building distributed applications with many advantages over traditional client-server designs. We believe that properly controlled mobile agents provide a good foundation on which to build Sentient applications. The aims of this work are threefold: (i) to provide a simple locationbased mechanism for the creation of security policies to control mobile agents; (ii) to simplify the task of producing applications for a pervasive computing environment through the constrained use of mobile agents; and (iii) to demonstrate the applicability of recent theoretical work using ambients to model mobility.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: FASE
• Authors: David Scott, Alastair R. Beresford, Alan Mycroft
• Keywords: Controlled Mobile Agents, FASE 2003, Mobile Agents, Sentient Computing Environment, Software Engineering